B10 Bleachers

[njm8845]

I was trying to think the other day of arenas with mostly bleacher seating.

I came up with Purdue, Indiana, and Northwestern.

Any others?

 

[Boiler Buck]

I do not know but they are god awful uncomfortable....for what you pay it would be nice to have a comfortable seat.....with room where you are not packed in like a sardine.

 

[rgarlitz]

Bleachers are probably most common in the older arenas. Williams Arena is all bleachers in the balconies, isn't it?

 

[Dryfly88]

You know your are cramped when it's more comfortable standing then sitting. If I'm going to be in the upper bowl anyway I prefer row 25 so I can stand whenever I want without blocking anybody.

I love the Mackey atmosphere, but when it's a full row it is very uncomfortable.

 

[TC4THREE]

Agree that individual seats would be more comfortable but not sure I'd want to change it.

 

[ChuckJr]

It seems whenever I'm in a bleacher seat the guy next to me weighs 300 and takes up 3 seats.

 

[tjreese]

I do not know but they are god awful uncomfortable....for what you pay it would be nice to have a comfortable seat.....with room where you are not packed in like a sardine.

I don't mind the bleacher seats, but wish they were charged by girth. Seriously, compared to many I'm in decent shape and Kim is very thin. We never get our two seats width. They have so much linear foot and divide that number up into seats and take the seats and sell for the same price no matter whether a person uses 1 seat or more than one seat. Probably wasn't as bad back in the 60s, but with all the fast food and super sizes...those same widths don't work as well today! Last year, a couple of guys in front of me had four seats and only two came to the games generally. They were still fairly tight in their seats due to the overflow.

 

[lbodel]

I was trying to think the other day of arenas with mostly bleacher seating.

I came up with Purdue, Indiana, and Northwestern.

Any others?

Indiana is not mostly bleacher seating? They have the small section of bleachers behind each basket, but the rest of the entire arena are individual seats.

The thing with Mackey is if you converted to individual seats, you'd probably lose a good chunk of your capacity. And as long as they sell it out, no way they do that.

 

[JohnnyDoeBoiler]

If you added individual seating, you would probably take out at least 2k in seats from Mackey. If you have ever been to Assembly Hall at Illinois (the one that looks like a spaceship), it has individual seating and probably looks about twice the size of Mackey...Assembly seats 17.2k and Mackey seats a paltry 14.8k. And that is after Mackey was renovated and added 600 seats.

 

[Boiler Buck]

If you added individual seating, you would probably take out at least 2k in seats from Mackey. If you have ever been to Assembly Hall at Illinois (the one that looks like a spaceship), it has individual seating and probably looks about twice the size of Mackey...Assembly seats 17.2k and Mackey seats a paltry 14.8k. And that is after Mackey was renovated and added 600 seats.

Well after Painter wins a NC then he can fix the seat issue by putting up Painter Pavilion.

 

[Gold&Black]

I thought they broadened the seat size during the renovation.

 

[Boiler_HD]

I don't mind the bleacher seats, but wish they were charged by girth. Seriously, compared to many I'm in decent shape and Kim is very thin. We never get our two seats width. They have so much linear foot and divide that number up into seats and take the seats and sell for the same price no matter whether a person uses 1 seat or more than one seat. Probably wasn't as bad back in the 60s, but with all the fast food and super sizes...those same widths don't work as well today! Last year, a couple of guys in front of me had four seats and only two came to the games generally. They were still fairly tight in their seats due to the overflow.

Discriminate by weight, that wouldn't bring about any lawsuits ha. You ever think it is just as uncomfortable for the person that is larger as well. While I am not wide I am 6'8, and had plenty of nasty things said to me at games which is why now I watch from home, plus this means I don't have to listen to the idiots next to me saying how Swanigan should never shoot the ball, or how Mathias shouldn't be allowed to shoot 3-pointers. Low IQ fans are the worst at games.

 

[tjreese]

Discriminate by weight, that wouldn't bring about any lawsuits ha. You ever think it is just as uncomfortable for the person that is larger as well. While I am not wide I am 6'8, and had plenty of nasty things said to me at games which is why now I watch from home, plus this means I don't have to listen to the idiots next to me saying how Swanigan should never shoot the ball, or how Mathias shouldn't be allowed to shoot 3-pointers. Low IQ fans are the worst at games.

feel for you...had two brother-in-laws 6'6" and 6'5" from clothes to airplanes. Oh I know they can't be comfortable either, but I rarely eat anything I want and know it is difficult to keep weight down as we age. It just appears that some are more than a little overweight. So many choices we have in life...that affect us and others around us...and growing to 6'8" was not one of them.

 

[Boiler_HD]

feel for you...had two brother-in-laws 6'6" and 6'5" from clothes to airplanes. Oh I know they can't be comfortable either, but I rarely eat anything I want and know it is difficult to keep weight down as we age. It just appears that some are more than a little overweight. So many choices we have in life...that affect us and others around us...and growing to 6'8" was not one of them.

I fly quite often, I am lucky enough to fly first class for some of the flights, but when I can't, I believe the attendants feel bad for me and usually move me to a row where there are 2 or more empty seats. As for the overweight, some may not be able to help it, but if i were them I would be buying 2 tickets for my own sanity.

 

[lbodel]

I thought they broadened the seat size during the renovation.

From a press release about the reseating:

* The overall seating capacity has been reduced by 917 seats or 6 percent of capacity.

* Seats available to the public dropped by 1,333 seats overall (14 percent) - 815 in the lower arena (24 percent) and 518 in the upper arena (8 percent).

Historically, the capacity of Mackey has been 14,123. This figure represented the number of seats available to be sold, not the total capacity of 15,157, but because it became an iconic figure was not altered. With the current renovation, the capacity will reflect the total seats available: 14,240. As in Ross-Ade Stadium, both tickets sold and total people in the venue will be tracked, with the latter figure reported as the attendance.

 

[tjreese]

From a press release about the reseating:

* The overall seating capacity has been reduced by 917 seats or 6 percent of capacity.

* Seats available to the public dropped by 1,333 seats overall (14 percent) - 815 in the lower arena (24 percent) and 518 in the upper arena (8 percent).

Historically, the capacity of Mackey has been 14,123. This figure represented the number of seats available to be sold, not the total capacity of 15,157, but because it became an iconic figure was not altered. With the current renovation, the capacity will reflect the total seats available: 14,240. As in Ross-Ade Stadium, both tickets sold and total people in the venue will be tracked, with the latter figure reported as the attendance.

Thanks that explained the questions I had with the 14,123 number ingrained in my mind for decades and how it has grown in number where you would think it would less seats due to the renovation

 

[BoilerBiker]

14,804 is the current listed sellout number
(In lieu of 14,123)